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Makea

On-demand production without the human handovers

LondonManufacturingEarly traction

PITCHING AT THE LONDON NIGHT ON 15 SEPTEMBER 2026

On-demand manufacturing never scaled because every step is a person emailing another person: tech pack, sourcing, quoting, sampling, critical path, logistics. Makea puts an AI agent on the brand side and another on the supplier side and lets them do the handover.

Every attempt to scale small-batch production runs into the same wall. The work is not the manufacturing, it is the dozens of clarifying exchanges between a brand that knows design and a supplier that knows tooling, each speaking a different language about the same garment.

Automating both sides of that conversation is a more defensible position than being a marketplace, and the reorder rate is the number that says it works: brands come back because the second order is easier than the first.

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